Visual Poetry: Ars Combinatoria by Chema Madoz

  Ars Combinatoria:  is the art of combination, the combining of objects, some of which are markedly different while others are akin, related. Hence the title of the exhibition held at La Pedrera in Barcelona, which is a nod to the combinatory arts developed in the 13th and 14th centuries by the Majorcan philosopher Ramon Llull [...]

Home Lighting Project: The “H” Apartment

“Apartment H” planned and designed by Re-Act Now Studio, is located in Constanta on the Black Sea coast of Romania. Re-act Now Studio says; Into a white space with floating objects all around, a spectral THING took place inside. Reflections, transparencies, colors are changing continuously as far you are moving. The THING is controlling everything around. [...]

La Habitación del Futuro: Interiorismo para Hoteles

  El Instituto Tecnológico Hotelero (ITH), en colaboración con el estudio internacional de diseño SerranoBrothers, ha demostrado cómo la tecnología actualmente disponible puede cambiar radicalmente la experiencia del huésped. ITH Room Xperience es un prototipo de habitación que cualquier hotel puede reproducir en sus instalaciones, y que combina los últimos avances tecnológicos en un revolucionario [...]

Arquitectura y la Escenografía: Colección “Ubojnia”

  La Colección “Ubojnia” son símbolos y metáforas que rozan el límite entre la arquitectura y la escenografía   “Ubojnia” es la segunda de una colección de doce partes llamada “XII” y diseñada por Karina Wiciak de Wamhouse. La colección consiste en doce interiores temáticos que serán unidos en estilo y nombre. Ubojnia combina en [...]

Building a Tile Lamp: LED Lighting Project

Brazilian studio 20.87 has used plastic panels and LED lighting to transform an old house in São Paulo into a giant lamp. The project was developed as a request of design store MiCasa. It consists of the scenographic customization of the adjacent building to the store, in order to host an art exhibition in its interior. The translucent corrugated panels [...]

Lighting Project Trees: Indoor Forest

  Lighting projectors and cables hang from the spindly branches of chunky black trees inside this penthouse bar and nightclub in Paris by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur. Named Electric, the music venue features soundproofed music rooms, an outdoor terrace and a dance floor facing out over the city skyline. Mathieu Lehanneur collaborated with architect Ana Moussinet to [...]

Hotel Design: Sleeping Boxes

 The Tverskaya Hotel Slepping Box Arch Group has taken its brilliant idea in the Sleepbox and filled it into an old building to create a hotel. This modular box is a minimalist sleeping chamber. The Sleepbox got its wings  when it was implemented into an airport for tired passengers. Those that wanted somewhere to sleep [...]

Sustainable Open Bathroom Design by Naruse Inokuma

    This modern bathroom design infuses the outdoors with one of the most private rooms in your household. The botanical bathroom design was created by Japanese Naruse Inokuma Architects in collaboration with talented florist Azuma Makoto of AMKK. The Superlative Space bathroom is built in a way which is very open to the outdoors, [...]

The Dome House: Sustainable Architecture

Brief + Design: This project is a home in Hawthorn,  Melbourne, designed to accommodate at the various stages of its life, a family, a single person, and a single person with large visiting family. The design concept of this home was to take a perfect shape, the copper sphere, and to remove parts. By selectively [...]

Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design: Contemporany Innovations

    AGAINST THE GRAIN  Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design March 19, 2013 to September 15, 2013 MAD – Museum of Arts and Design in New York   About the Exhibition Featuring nearly 90 installations, sculptures, furniture, and objects, Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design explores some of the [...]